Spending without taxation
Subtitle: FILP and the politics of public finance in Japan
By: Gene Park
Series: Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780804773300
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Politics and government; Public Finance; Fiscal policy; Taxation; Appropriations and expenditures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding the FILP system; title: The common origins of budget restraint and FILP, 1945-1953; title: Balancing fiscal policy, industrialization and distributive politics, 1953-1970; title: The electoral logic of FILP allocations, 1960-1993; title: Pushing the limits of the FILP compromise, 1970-1990; title: The politics of FILP reform, 1990-2001; title: The Koizumi reforms and the legacy of FILP, 2001 and after.